Artists' Exhibition Update

Jayne Smith will be taking part in 'After The End' exhibition at the Elysium gallery, Swansea from 14th May - 11th June. www.elysiumgallery.com Please drop by and view her new work if you in and around the city.

More exhibition photos

exhibition photos

Private view photos

A Strange Country - Private View, 2 April 2010

A Strange Country: The hang

A Strange Country: The Private View, 2 April 2010

A fantastic evening - buzzing from start to finish with crowds of interested people and a really friendly atmosphere. Two jazz guitarists, Jamie and Jamie, provided a cool musical background throughout.

If you visit only one exhibition this week, make sure it's this one! You've got until 8 April.

The hang

Thanks to some brilliant curating by Jesse Leroy Smith and the creativity of all the artists involved, we now have a show that we hope visitors will find both exciting and stimulating.

Our exhibition is now open!

After two days of hanging our exhibition we're pleased to announce A Strange Country is open as of 10am today!

The last two days have been both very exciting and exhausting. Thanks to Jesse Leroy Smith's magic touch we now have a pretty special show I think we can all be proud of.

Photos coming soon!!

The hang

Final preparations are underway for hanging the exhibition, it will be a busy couple of days but also exciting. Can't wait to get it up and running!

Private View Entertainment

Great news! It's been confirmed that guitarist Jamie Toms and friend will be providing us with a live jazz session for our Private view on Friday 2nd April 6.00pm - 9.00pm. It promises to be a great evening!

3 weeks to go

With only three weeks to go, our is flyer ready and the big decisions have been made (well most of them anyway), things are starting to get really exciting! Having something to focus on has been such a positive experience for me, I already feel as though I've got a lot out of collaborating with other like-minded artists and having a period of time to paint with a deadline at the end.

My work has taken on a slightly new direction and I've just recently updated my website. Here's an example of what I've been up to - more coming soon!

Flyer

Here is our New flyer design! Well worth all the angst and hard work it has taken to get this done!

Flyer

Back from London, preparations for the exhibition are now gaining momentum. With the help of CAZ and ALIAS we are pushing ahead with the design for our flyer which we expect to launch next week (watch this space!). Its been a tough decision but thanks to everyone's hard work, I think our chosen image is both exciting and dynamic, and will act as a taster for the show, drawing in an audience. Thats the theory anyway!

creative diversion

I have had a big personal loss this week and am finding it hard to focus on getting some work finished so that it can be photographed for publicity flyers. Is it just me or does everyone end up creatively at their most active when faced with a looming deadline? Breakthroughs never seem to happen early on and I always seem to be busy trying to make things happen right up to the last minute! Given time I know that things will improve but time is becoming a luxury.

The race is on now to get the paintings finished so that we can print our publicity.

A Strange Country

A Strange Country

'Painting is not just of seeing but also of making our world................of understanding..............The physicality of painting (therefore) matters, and experiencing that materiality matters a lot too.'

It has been a bit of struggle to stop my work from fragmenting and to focus on one path in order to produce a coherent body of work strong enough for the exhibition. Whist trying to finish two large works which were started four or five months ago, I recently found myself exploring a new direction, moving my work away from an over obviously apocalyptic scenario to something which I hope is both more subtle but at the same time is more thought provoking.My interest in wastelands remains firm but I intend to depict them more realistically symbolic, rather than fantastical to provide a recogisable backdrop that is readily accessible to the viewer. Against this have placed a futuristic dwelling, it's pristine, sterile plasticity at odds with the overgrown vegetation and dishevelled buildings that crowd in on it. The figure/figures is inconsequential and feels almost lost in a world that they cannot comprehend. What was it that we were promised? What happened to our dreams of a modern utopia? Where does our future lie?